This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: mpt3sas: Remove scsi_dma_map() error messages
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
scsi-mpt3sas-remove-scsi_dma_map-error-messages.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e112aed2473aef377a98501a4116c15023c10741
Author: Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Mar 3 19:32:03 2022 +0530
scsi: mpt3sas: Remove scsi_dma_map() error messages
[ Upstream commit 0c25422d34b4726b2707d5f38560943155a91b80 ]
When scsi_dma_map() fails by returning a sges_left value less than zero,
the amount of logging produced can be extremely high. In a recent end-user
environment, 1200 messages per second were being sent to the log buffer.
This eventually overwhelmed the system and it stalled.
These error messages are not needed. Remove them.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220303140203.12642-1-sreekanth.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 82dbb57ac8d0 ("scsi: mpt3sas: Avoid IOMMU page faults on REPORT ZONES")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
index 35c97bc660bd8..8d161d6075b78 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
@@ -2310,12 +2310,8 @@ _base_check_pcie_native_sgl(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc,
/* Get the SG list pointer and info. */
sges_left = scsi_dma_map(scmd);
- if (sges_left < 0) {
- sdev_printk(KERN_ERR, scmd->device,
- "scsi_dma_map failed: request for %d bytes!\n",
- scsi_bufflen(scmd));
+ if (sges_left < 0)
return 1;
- }
/* Check if we need to build a native SG list. */
if (base_is_prp_possible(ioc, pcie_device,
@@ -2422,12 +2418,8 @@ _base_build_sg_scmd(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc,
sg_scmd = scsi_sglist(scmd);
sges_left = scsi_dma_map(scmd);
- if (sges_left < 0) {
- sdev_printk(KERN_ERR, scmd->device,
- "scsi_dma_map failed: request for %d bytes!\n",
- scsi_bufflen(scmd));
+ if (sges_left < 0)
return -ENOMEM;
- }
sg_local = &mpi_request->SGL;
sges_in_segment = ioc->max_sges_in_main_message;
@@ -2570,12 +2562,8 @@ _base_build_sg_scmd_ieee(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc,
sg_scmd = scsi_sglist(scmd);
sges_left = scsi_dma_map(scmd);
- if (sges_left < 0) {
- sdev_printk(KERN_ERR, scmd->device,
- "scsi_dma_map failed: request for %d bytes!\n",
- scsi_bufflen(scmd));
+ if (sges_left < 0)
return -ENOMEM;
- }
sg_local = &mpi_request->SGL;
sges_in_segment = (ioc->request_sz -
